Windows Jobs in the UK excluding London

Microsoft Windows
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Windows skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Windows over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 12 17
Rank change year-on-year -4 +5 +2
Permanent jobs citing Windows 3,485 7,183 6,414
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 8.85% 9.63% 11.06%
As % of the Operating Systems category 69.20% 67.29% 66.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,274 5,831 4,152
10th Percentile £26,250 £24,696 £24,579
25th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% -
75th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £66,250
UK median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - -11.11% +2.27%

All Operating Systems
UK excluding London

Windows falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 5,036 10,675 9,625
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 12.79% 14.32% 16.59%
Number of salaries quoted 2,937 8,160 5,973
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,500 £25,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £30,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £42,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £73,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -14.29% -

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in the UK excluding London

Windows
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Windows in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Windows in the UK excluding London

Windows
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Windows in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Windows in the UK excluding London

Windows
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -3 1,055 £34,500 -8.00% 1,260
South East -4 901 £38,325 -4.19% 1,612
Midlands 0 789 £36,925 +5.50% 1,029
North West -15 570 £38,500 -3.75% 597
West Midlands +6 550 £36,925 +5.50% 534
Yorkshire +4 436 £32,000 -11.11% 498
South West -5 312 £35,000 -16.67% 751
East of England -23 309 £43,000 +32.31% 844
East Midlands -14 237 £32,500 -4.32% 426
Scotland -12 95 £50,000 +17.65% 305
Wales -9 50 £48,750 +50.00% 163
North East -14 47 £48,000 +45.45% 172
Northern Ireland +1 4 £50,000 +33.33% 78
Isle of Man +5 1 £34,500 -21.14%
Channel Islands - 1 £45,000 - 1
Windows
UK

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 376 (10.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 265 (7.60%) SharePoint
3 73 (2.09%) IIS
4 60 (1.72%) Confluence
5 46 (1.32%) Apache
6 14 (0.40%) Tomcat
7 12 (0.34%) OpenEdge
8 10 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2013
9 7 (0.20%) IBM Domino
9 7 (0.20%) WordPress
10 6 (0.17%) nginx
10 6 (0.17%) SharePoint Server
11 5 (0.14%) Skype for Business
12 4 (0.11%) OpenStack
12 4 (0.11%) SAS
13 3 (0.086%) CMS
13 3 (0.086%) Exchange Server 2010
14 2 (0.057%) Apache Solr
14 2 (0.057%) JOnAS
14 2 (0.057%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 307 (8.81%) Microsoft Office
2 72 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 33 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
5 6 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.17%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.17%) Trello
6 5 (0.14%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 2 (0.057%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.029%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.029%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.029%) GNU Octave
8 1 (0.029%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 25 (0.72%) Dynamics NAV
2 10 (0.29%) NetSuite
2 10 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
3 7 (0.20%) SAP Business One
3 7 (0.20%) SAP ERP
3 7 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
6 3 (0.086%) Dynamics CRM
6 3 (0.086%) Sage 50
7 2 (0.057%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
7 2 (0.057%) Sage 1000
8 1 (0.029%) assyst
8 1 (0.029%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.029%) Elite 3E
8 1 (0.029%) iTrent
8 1 (0.029%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.029%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.029%) SAP MDM
Cloud Services
1 1,073 (30.79%) Microsoft 365
2 848 (24.33%) Azure
3 371 (10.65%) AWS
4 250 (7.17%) Entra ID
5 98 (2.81%) SaaS
6 85 (2.44%) OneDrive
7 45 (1.29%) Power Platform
8 41 (1.18%) IaaS
9 39 (1.12%) GCP
9 39 (1.12%) PaaS
10 34 (0.98%) Google Workspace
11 29 (0.83%) Azure DevOps
12 28 (0.80%) PowerApps
13 26 (0.75%) Mimecast
14 24 (0.69%) Amazon EC2
14 24 (0.69%) Cloud Computing
15 22 (0.63%) Microsoft Copilot
15 22 (0.63%) Power Automate
16 21 (0.60%) Nutanix
17 20 (0.57%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 575 (16.50%) Firewall
2 542 (15.55%) VPN
3 359 (10.30%) DNS
4 311 (8.92%) Cisco IOS
5 294 (8.44%) WAN
6 290 (8.32%) DHCP
7 283 (8.12%) LAN
8 256 (7.35%) TCP/IP
9 156 (4.48%) VoIP
10 153 (4.39%) VLAN
11 124 (3.56%) SAN
12 118 (3.39%) Wi-Fi
13 108 (3.10%) Network Security
14 93 (2.67%) Wireless
15 79 (2.27%) Broadband
16 76 (2.18%) Internet
17 57 (1.64%) Remote Desktop
18 54 (1.55%) NAS
18 54 (1.55%) WLAN
19 41 (1.18%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 192 (5.51%) SQL Server
2 65 (1.87%) Relational Database
3 53 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
3 53 (1.52%) MySQL
4 38 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (0.69%) RDBMS
6 19 (0.55%) Power BI
7 11 (0.32%) DB2
7 11 (0.32%) NoSQL
7 11 (0.32%) Oracle Database
8 9 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (0.23%) GIS
9 8 (0.23%) MongoDB
10 7 (0.20%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (0.17%) Oracle Exadata
11 6 (0.17%) Oracle Reports
12 5 (0.14%) SAP HANA
12 5 (0.14%) Tableau
13 4 (0.11%) MaxDB
Development Applications
1 102 (2.93%) JIRA
2 90 (2.58%) Git
3 62 (1.78%) Cucumber
3 62 (1.78%) Robot Framework
4 39 (1.12%) Bitbucket
5 36 (1.03%) Jenkins
6 25 (0.72%) Eclipse
6 25 (0.72%) Eclipse RCP
7 18 (0.52%) Visual Studio
8 15 (0.43%) MSI
8 15 (0.43%) Vagrant
9 12 (0.34%) Sonatype Nexus
10 9 (0.26%) GitLab
10 9 (0.26%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 6 (0.17%) Selenium
12 5 (0.14%) Octopus Deploy
12 5 (0.14%) Oracle Forms
12 5 (0.14%) Subversion
12 5 (0.14%) TeamCity
13 4 (0.11%) SpecFlow
General
1 1,199 (34.40%) Social Skills
2 472 (13.54%) Analytical Skills
3 451 (12.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 178 (5.11%) Finance
5 157 (4.51%) Presentation Skills
6 138 (3.96%) Telecoms
7 132 (3.79%) Organisational Skills
8 112 (3.21%) Retail
9 109 (3.13%) Manufacturing
10 77 (2.21%) Law
11 76 (2.18%) Esports
11 76 (2.18%) Legal
12 59 (1.69%) Public Sector
13 44 (1.26%) Automotive
14 41 (1.18%) Electronics
15 30 (0.86%) Banking
16 26 (0.75%) Advertising
16 26 (0.75%) Back Office
16 26 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
17 22 (0.63%) Games
Job Titles
1 785 (22.53%) IT Support
2 470 (13.49%) Support Engineer
3 468 (13.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 389 (11.16%) Analyst
5 326 (9.35%) IT Engineer
6 218 (6.26%) Support Analyst
7 201 (5.77%) 2nd Line Support
8 189 (5.42%) IT Support Engineer
9 172 (4.94%) IT Analyst
10 159 (4.56%) Senior
11 148 (4.25%) Lead
12 132 (3.79%) 1st Line Support
13 124 (3.56%) IT Support Analyst
14 111 (3.19%) Administrator
15 108 (3.10%) Support Technician
16 102 (2.93%) Infrastructure Support
17 101 (2.90%) Technical Support
18 91 (2.61%) 3rd Line Support
19 90 (2.58%) Systems Engineer
20 89 (2.55%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 267 (7.66%) Elastic Stack
2 99 (2.84%) .NET
3 45 (1.29%) HTML
4 42 (1.21%) CSS
5 41 (1.18%) Middleware
6 25 (0.72%) JSP
7 21 (0.60%) REST
8 19 (0.55%) ASP.NET
9 17 (0.49%) XML
10 14 (0.40%) .NET Framework
11 13 (0.37%) JSON
11 13 (0.37%) LDAP
12 12 (0.34%) SOAP
13 11 (0.32%) .NET Core
14 10 (0.29%) WinForms
15 9 (0.26%) Entity Framework
15 9 (0.26%) MFC
16 8 (0.23%) Node.js
16 8 (0.23%) SAML
16 8 (0.23%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 547 (15.70%) Social Media
2 260 (7.46%) Cyberattack
3 205 (5.88%) Driving Licence
4 155 (4.45%) Enterprise Software
5 114 (3.27%) Management Information System
6 107 (3.07%) Self-Motivation
7 92 (2.64%) Onboarding
8 84 (2.41%) Data Centre
9 81 (2.32%) Operational Technology
10 69 (1.98%) Linux Command Line
11 56 (1.61%) CCTV
12 45 (1.29%) Replication
13 40 (1.15%) IoT
14 38 (1.09%) Clustering
15 31 (0.89%) Video Conferencing
16 28 (0.80%) Mobile App
17 27 (0.77%) PKI
18 26 (0.75%) Hybrid Cloud
19 25 (0.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
19 25 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 924 (26.51%) Linux
2 844 (24.22%) Windows Server
3 523 (15.01%) Windows Vista
4 396 (11.36%) Windows 10
5 387 (11.10%) Android
6 163 (4.68%) Mac OS
7 120 (3.44%) Windows Server 2019
8 111 (3.19%) Windows Server 2012
9 103 (2.96%) Windows Server 2016
10 100 (2.87%) Apple iOS
11 74 (2.12%) Unix
12 44 (1.26%) Mac OS X
13 40 (1.15%) Windows 7
14 33 (0.95%) Ubuntu
15 31 (0.89%) VMS
16 24 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 17 (0.49%) CentOS
18 10 (0.29%) Windows 8
19 8 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
20 7 (0.20%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,261 (36.18%) Problem-Solving
2 525 (15.06%) Customer Service
3 501 (14.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 493 (14.15%) Mathematics
5 472 (13.54%) Line Management
6 450 (12.91%) DevOps
7 420 (12.05%) ITIL
8 365 (10.47%) Cybersecurity
9 301 (8.64%) Task Automation
10 283 (8.12%) Risk Management
11 279 (8.01%) Platform Engineering
12 276 (7.92%) Mentoring
13 275 (7.89%) Storage Management
14 269 (7.72%) Computer Science
15 213 (6.11%) Coaching
16 193 (5.54%) Agile
17 179 (5.14%) Continuous Improvement
18 149 (4.28%) ITSM
19 128 (3.67%) Disaster Recovery
20 125 (3.59%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 703 (20.17%) PowerShell
2 515 (14.78%) Python
3 393 (11.28%) Bash
4 267 (7.66%) SQL
5 134 (3.85%) C#
6 110 (3.16%) JavaScript
7 86 (2.47%) Java
8 53 (1.52%) C++
9 24 (0.69%) C
9 24 (0.69%) PHP
10 22 (0.63%) Ada
10 22 (0.63%) Rust
11 17 (0.49%) Progress 4GL
11 17 (0.49%) VBA
12 16 (0.46%) Groovy
12 16 (0.46%) Perl
13 14 (0.40%) T-SQL
14 12 (0.34%) Shell Script
15 10 (0.29%) MATLAB
15 10 (0.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 662 (19.00%) Degree
2 580 (16.64%) DBS Check
3 265 (7.60%) Microsoft Certification
4 260 (7.46%) Security Cleared
5 150 (4.30%) SC Cleared
6 136 (3.90%) DV Cleared
7 109 (3.13%) A+ Certification
8 104 (2.98%) Cisco Certification
9 99 (2.84%) Computer Science Degree
10 94 (2.70%) MCSE
11 84 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
12 81 (2.32%) CCNA
13 77 (2.21%) MCP
14 76 (2.18%) MCSA
15 66 (1.89%) CCNP
16 63 (1.81%) Azure Certification
17 53 (1.52%) Network+ Certification
18 40 (1.15%) Master's Degree
19 33 (0.95%) HND
20 31 (0.89%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (4.28%) SLA
2 93 (2.67%) QA
3 83 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 69 (1.98%) GDPR
5 50 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
6 20 (0.57%) NIST
7 17 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 13 (0.37%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.29%) COBIT
10 7 (0.20%) ISO 9001
11 6 (0.17%) Accessibility
12 5 (0.14%) NCSC
13 4 (0.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.086%) ISO 14001
15 2 (0.057%) ISO 13485
15 2 (0.057%) ISO 9000
15 2 (0.057%) PMO
16 1 (0.029%) SOC 2
16 1 (0.029%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1,157 (33.20%) Active Directory
2 505 (14.49%) Hyper-V
3 347 (9.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 328 (9.41%) Docker
5 317 (9.10%) vSphere
6 270 (7.75%) VMware NSX
7 77 (2.21%) VMware ESXi
8 66 (1.89%) Virtual Servers
9 63 (1.81%) Virtual Desktop
10 40 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
11 37 (1.06%) Firmware
12 27 (0.77%) Terminal Services
13 21 (0.60%) BitLocker
14 18 (0.52%) XenApp
15 11 (0.32%) DFS Replication
16 9 (0.26%) Microsoft App-V
17 6 (0.17%) NFS
18 3 (0.086%) KVM
18 3 (0.086%) Squid
18 3 (0.086%) Xen
Systems Management
1 401 (11.51%) Ansible
2 354 (10.16%) Terraform
3 304 (8.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 88 (2.53%) SCCM
5 58 (1.66%) Kubernetes
6 44 (1.26%) Puppet
7 27 (0.77%) vCenter Server
8 24 (0.69%) Jamf Pro
9 23 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
10 21 (0.60%) Grafana
11 19 (0.55%) SCOM
11 19 (0.55%) WMI
12 17 (0.49%) FortiGate
12 17 (0.49%) Prometheus
13 15 (0.43%) Proxmox
14 14 (0.40%) vMotion
15 12 (0.34%) Nagios
16 11 (0.32%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 11 (0.32%) AirWatch
17 10 (0.29%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 1,438 (41.26%) Microsoft
2 555 (15.93%) Cisco
3 493 (14.15%) VMware
4 286 (8.21%) Juniper
5 281 (8.06%) Splunk
6 260 (7.46%) 3PAR
7 135 (3.87%) Apple
8 101 (2.90%) Veeam
9 87 (2.50%) ServiceNow
10 85 (2.44%) Meraki
11 83 (2.38%) Citrix
12 68 (1.95%) Sun
13 66 (1.89%) Google
14 63 (1.81%) Oracle
15 52 (1.49%) HP
16 49 (1.41%) Dell
17 42 (1.21%) SAP
18 41 (1.18%) Atlassian
19 38 (1.09%) Fortinet
20 32 (0.92%) Sophos